Lady Gaga cancels gig after passing out backstage

Lady Gaga has cancelled a gig in Indiana due to ill health, after being treated backstage by paramedics after she passed out.

The singer was at the Purdue University venue last night (January 14) when she was taken ill with an irregular heart rate, she revealed on her Twitter page, Twitter.com/ladygaga.
The star added that she was treated by paramedics for exhaustion and dehydration, before the decision was made to pull the show. It has been rescheduled for January 26.
"I've been crying for hours, I feel like I let my fans down tonight," she wrote. "An hour before the show, I was feeling dizzy and having trouble breathing. Paramedics came to take care of me, and told me my heart rate was irregular – a result of exhaustion and dehydration.

"Can't apologise enough for how sorry I am. I could hear my fans cheering from my dressing room, I begged everyone to let me go onstage. My stage has complicated mechanical elements, everyone was concerned I'd be in danger during the two-hour show, since I had passed out earlier.

"I am so devastated. I have performed with the flu, a cold… I would never cancel a show just based on discomfort. I hope you can forgive me. I love my little monsters more than anything, you are everything to me. I will make up the performance on Jan 26."

Lady Gaga kicks off UK 'Monster Ball' tour in Manchester

Lady Gaga brought her mammoth 'Monster Ball Tour' to the UK last night (February 19) for a spectacular Manchester show which saw the star make 15 costume changes.

The singer performed a host of hits and new tracks from her 2009 debut 'The Fame' and expanded version 'The Fame Monster' during a theatrical set which featured a giant octopus prop, a subway train and a giant green Rolls Royce.

The show, which was put together in four weeks and saw Gaga adding the final touches just 30 minutes before the doors opened, was split into four acts - 'City', 'Subway', 'Forest' and 'Monster Ball'.

It told the story of how the singer lost her friends across New York as she made her way to a ball.

The singer told fans at the MEN Arena, "We were doing another show in the United States... but I got very bored, so I threw it away."

The set kicked off with 'Dance In The Dark, which she debuted at the Brit Awards, which she performed against a seedy New York street scene backdrop, before performing a few bars of another new song, 'Glitter And Grease'.

The second act saw the singer dressed as a PVC-wrapped nun in a subway carriage as she launched into 'Love Game, and set her piano on fire for 'Speechless'.
The star was then raised above the crowd on a platform and rolled into the third act set against a forest, donning a new outfit shaped like a tasselled lampshade.

Lady Gaga rounded off the set in spectacular fashion, returning for the final act featuring a huge animatronic octopus, as she closed the show with 'Paparazzi' and recent Number One hit 'Bad Romance'. She next plays in the UK in Liverpool on February 24.

Lady Gaga played:

'Dance In The Dark'

'Glitter And Grease'

'Just Dance'

'Beautiful, Dirty, Rich'

'Vanity'

'The Fame'

'Love Game'

'Boys Boys Boys'

'Money Honey'

'Telephone'

'Brown Eyes'

'Speechless'

'So Happy I Could Die'

'Forest'

'Monster'

'Teeth'

'Alejandro'

'Poker Face'

'Monster's Ball'

'Paparazzi'

'Bad Romance'